(CARIBBEAN LIFE) Bertie Xavier came far away from his home of Wowetta Village, in the Rupununi Region of Guyana. The Amerindian native was here representing the entire South American continent at the recent United Nations 10th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Gaining international prominence for his people and country, Xavier who is the first to leave his village to pursue a master’s degree at Future Generation College in the United States, said that Future Generations had helped him tremendously.

There is to be a minimum cap on the amount of cash that remigrants can spend on building houses on lands specially set aside for them, according to Housing Minister, Irfaan Ali.

“What we want is that everybody who comes back from overseas, they are going to invest a minimum of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand US in the building of their house,” he told demwaves.com .